Improvement in cultivators



NITED STATES ELIAS MINNICH, OF MACKEES HALE FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

|MPRovE-lvl ENT IN 'ouLTlvAToRs' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,376, dated February 14, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS MINNIOH, of Mac- Kees HalfFalls, Snyder county, State of Pennsylvania, have' invented new and useful Improvements in Corn-Flows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof', reference bein g had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a partof this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in connectingthe adjustable plowshares to thetongue by bracing-rodsand the arrangement of the teeth as fastened tothe front of the angularshaped frame, and all in combination with the angular frame.

Figure l represents a 'side elevation, and Fig. 2 a perspective view, of the machine.

A represents the tongue or beam ofthe plow as attached on the top and across the center ofthe angular-shaped frame B by screw-bolts; C, the double-tree to which the horses are hitched, D, the handles of'tlle plow, setobliqnely to the tongue and bolted to the right side of the frame B at top.

E are upright supports that turn on a pivot or post, Gr, passing through the frame B at each side. These supports are reversible, so as to move the plowshares II wider or narrower in front, as required, and they are tightened by bolts or pins J at the top of the frame B The plowsliares H are adjustable on slots K, through which the bolts pass, and are fastened t0 the supports E. At the front part of the frame B two teeth, L, are bolted that curve downward, with their points to the front, to operate as rake-teeth to collect stubble, weeds, &c., as the plow is operating. Iron rods M M are fastened permanently tothe tongue A ofthe plow and to the front end ot'the shares H and rear end of the supports E to brace the plowshares H and bind the whole machine rmly together.

The advantage ot' this combination ofjdevices is to regulate the width or' the furrow and clear the rows of corn from weeds, Src.

I do not claim the shape ot' the frame or the adjustable plowshares or raking-teeth as heretofore used; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the iron braces M lv,

connecting the plowshares to the tongue, with the teeth or rake L, as arranged and combined with the angular-shaped frame B, as herein described, and for the purposes set. forth.

ELIAS MINNIOH. Witnesses:

LEVI S. HENoLD, WILLIAM M. HA'INs. 

